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| | (Post a comment) » Gigabyte GV-N275UD-896H GeForce GTX 275 ReviewWith its 2-ounce copper PCB and 1200MHz memory, Gigabyte's GV-N275UD-896H is one of the first GeForce GTX 275 cards on the market to deviate from NVIDIA's reference design. See how it compares to the stock GTX 275 in today's review! |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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  p4l1ndr0m3 (339)    May 30, 2009 - 10:45 pm | Edited on May 31, 2009 - 11:14 am
| Did I miss something or is the specific card in this review not really overclocked?
"In terms of clock speeds, Gigabyte clocks their GV-N275UD-896H board at the stock GTX 275 frequencies for the graphics core and stream processors: 633MHz core/1404MHz shaders. The memory is OC’ed slightly however, with Gigabyte opting for 1200MHz memory (2400MHz effective).
This speed is 66MHz higher or about 5% faster than the stock GeForce GTX 275."
Exactly, which is why I wanted to challenge the 250 dollar price point with a competitor's card.
Keep in mind that marketing is 90% perception and 10% product. You can have a garbage product but as long as your customers perceive your product in a positive way, you will make sales.
If nVidia requires review sites to review their cards much more often than they would in a normal product cycle, then those of us who read these articles will have that manufacturer beat into our heads, subconsciously, as the only viable solution for that application.
On firingsquad.com, in the last 6 months out of the 15 graphics card reviews, 10 of them were nVidia and only 5 were ATI/AMD (this excludes the 1 shootout).
Call me what you want, but I think that speaks for itself. Other review sites have even come forward to confess that nVidia pressures them to things "nVidia's way." Maybe it could be called, "the way its meant to be reviewed" or something.
The HD 4770 review didn't even have crossfire numbers for a pair of cards. Its been over a month now, and I know availability is rough for this card, but still...
I have a suggestion/solution that would solve this matter. When reviewing a specialty card (like the Gigabyte card in this review) review a competitors card at the same price in the same review. That way, you know what you can get from nVidia at a price point as well as what ATI/AMD offers at the price point as well.» Login to reply to this |
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